Helping Veterans for Love of Country

Many groups that provide care for America's wounded warriors and their families are led by military wives.

By

Karl Rove

July 4, 2012 5:46 p.m. ET

The great 19th-century French observer of our country, Alexis de Tocqueville, was amazed at how "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations . . . proposing a common object for the exertions of a great many men and . . . inducing them voluntarily to pursue it." Once combined, "they are no longer isolated men, but a power seen from afar, whose actions serve for an example and whose language is listened to."